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Original Title:	Peace
ISBN:	0307268330 (ISBN13: 9780307268334)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction (2009), Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction (2009)

Peace

Richard Bausch

Hardcover | Pages: 171 pages

Rating: 3.81 | 918 Users | 187 Reviews

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Title	:	Peace
Author	:	Richard Bausch
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 171 pages
Published	:	April 15th 2008 by Alfred A. Knopf
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. War. World War II. Novels

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Italy, near Cassino, in the terrible winter of 1944. An icy rain, continuing unabated for days. Guided by a seventy-year-old Italian man in rope-soled shoes, three American soldiers are sent on a reconnaissance mission up the side of a steep hill that they discover, before very long, to be a mountain. As they climb, the old man's indeterminate loyalties only add to the terror and confusion that engulf them. Peace is a feat of storytelling from one of America's most acclaimed novelists: a powerful look at the corrosiveness of violence, the human cost of war, and the redemptive power of mercy.


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This book reminded me a lot of Hemingway's Farewell to Arms. They style was spare and kind of Hemingwayesque and the subject matter was similar. Just as Hemingway used rain to set a mood in his book, this author used the freezing, snowy weather to heighten the feeling of despair, misery and futility. FTA of course included a love story, and Peace includes no female characters outsides of the memory of the main character Marson, but the theme of the despair, misery and futility of war reminded me

A short novel but a lot is packed into its 171 pages. Powerful story of several soldiers narrated by Corporal Robert Marson. Deals with the fears that soldiers experience and the difficult moral issues of when "murder" is permissible, acceptable, the right thing. Two prisoners on two separate occasions are on the receiving end of a soldier's take on that moral question. Most striking about the novel are the vivid descriptions of the difficulties of trekking over rugged mountain terrain in

Occasionally, you encounter a story that seems as though it has been crystallized to its essence. That is my experience with "Peace," which is about peace, but also about war. Richard Bausch starts with a straightforward story of an ugly and dispiriting moment in WWII. A squad of foot soldiers near Monte Cassino have unexpectedly rousted a German soldier and a prostitute from the back of a hay-covered wagon, and in an instant, two of the GIs are dead, the German has in turn been shot and the

As Michael Hedges might say, War is a force that gives us meaning. Richard Bauschs Peace offers human character assaulted and revealed by the horror of war. In bleak 1944 Italy, after the Cassino invasion by the Allies, a reconnaissance company stops a farmers cart. A German soldier and whore jump out. The German shoots and kills two soldiers before being himself shot dead by a GI. A sergeant shoots the German whore, who is screaming and struggling, even though she presents no threat to the

It is rare to read a perfect work, but Bausch's Peace is indeed such a masterpiece. Set in Italy on the brink of WWII, three soldiers journey up a snow fallen mountainside on a reconnaissance mission, only to be met with the cruelty of the cold, haunting memories of innocent civilians slain, an Italian guide whose allegiance is questionable, and a mysterious sniper stalking their every move. In sparse, beautiful language--distilled and serene as the snowfallen landscape of Peace itself--we

My dad bought this slim book for me when I was possibly 12 or 13. I remember reading it, and enjoying it, but not much else, so when I closed my previous read for the last time, I thought I'd give it another go. It's the same copy, and I was amused to see the frequency of folded page corners - I thought I read slowly now, but 13 year old me truly was sluggish! The novel (bordering on novella at ~170 pages) itself, is brilliant. The brief running time makes for a fabtastically paced one act yarn.

The first paragraph of Richard Bauschs novella Peace ends: Everything was in question now. The everything in question apparently refers to questions of time and geography, but is suggestive of the books wider theme: The moral confusion that follows soldiers into war, when all the codes theyve spent their short lives learning are cast aside. Robert Marson, the WWII soldier who is the protagonist of this taut, gripping tale, arrives in Italy just about the time that nation changes from an Axis to